Can I legally get SIM card in Germany as a tourist?

6/23/2019 9:44:47 AM

You can buy all the SIM cards you want, but can’t activate them. You have to be registered in the German residence bureau’s data base. No residency, no activation.

I went to Greece to get a SIM card.

8/29/2017 12:19:03 PM

Yes, but it depends what do you mean for getting a SIM card…

if you are in Germany as a resident or tourist you can go to electronic stores like Saturn and find SIM card for like 5€, many Phone operators will even send you one for free per mail-post (e.g. O2), then after that you need to top on a little amount of money and there you are!

what the new law means is that you can not buy that anonymously anymore (for security reasons)

I quote the news:

Am Samstag, dem 1. Juli 2017, tritt die Registrierungspflicht für
Prepaid-SIM-Karten in Deutschland in Kraft. Der Kauf einer
Prepaid-SIM-Karte mit einem Pseudonym ist dann nicht mehr möglich.
Kunden, die sich am morgigen Samstag eine neue Prepaid-SIM-Karte im
Supermarkt oder Mobilfunk-Geschäft kaufen, müssen ihren Namen, ihre
Adresse und ihr Geburtsdatum nachweisen.

the translation main idea is:

since sat. Jul 1st 2017 you can buy a SIM card, but you have to give
your Name, Address and Birthday

so you still can show your id as tourist 🙂 …

Edit: if you still are interested in the law regulation see the Paragraf 111 des Telekommunikationsgesetzes (TKG)

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